Rus Grandük Nikolay Nikolayeviç / 1877-1878 Osmanlı-Rus Savaşı sırasında Rusya'nın Tuna cephesinden sorumluydu.

Cabinet photo of Abdullah Freres Constantinople / Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831–1891) kabin fotoğrafı 17x 11 cm..

He was the third son and sixth child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna. He may also be referred to as Nicholas Nikolaevich the Elder to tell him apart from his son, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929). Trained for the military, as a Field Marshal he commanded the Russian army of the Danube in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878.